Eleanor Clift (born July 7, 1940) is an American liberal political reporter, television pundit, and author. She is currently[when?] a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast.[1] She was a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group, which she has compared to "a televised food fight".[2]

Clift is a board member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).[3]

In 2008, she wrote Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics which intertwines the events of her own life and those of the nation concerning the Terri Schiavo case during a two-week period in March 2005. In it she examines the way people in the United States deal with death, publicity and personality. She wrote in the book, “Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.”

Clift's first marriage was to William Brooks Clift, Jr. (1919–1986), the brother of the actor Montgomery Clift. They had three sons: Edward Montgomery, Woodbury Blair, and Robert Anderson. In September 1989, she married Tom Brazaitis,[9] a Washington columnist for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. They remained together until his death of kidney cancer on 30 March 2005.[10][11]